Sunday, December 13, 2015

Agatha Christie is on the book club’s reading list
in the latest from the author of The Readaholics and the
Falcon Fiasco. This time, Amy-Faye and her friends might
have to read between the lines to catch a killer.

Amy-Faye Johnson’s book club, the Readaholics, is
engrossed in Murder on the Orient Express, and
Poirot’s surprising resolution is stirring up debate.
Is the solution remotely realistic? Is justice served by
Poirot's decision? Well, the book is fiction after all…

Then, just as Amy-Faye is planning the grand opening of her
brother Derek’s pub, his hot-headed partner is
murdered. To keep Derek from being railroaded as a suspect,
Amy-Faye and the Readaholics take a page from Poirot and
investigate. But as the clues lead to unlikely places,
surprising motives, and a multitude of suspects, Amy-Faye
and her pals wonder if truth can be just as strange as fiction.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Pseudonym for Ella Barrick/Lila Dare.My life began, from a writing perspective, when I went to
college. That’s not to say I didn’t write
stories before then. I did. I’ve always written and,
in my elementary years, illustrated stories. My tales
always featured horses and princesses I could render with
flowing manes of hair. Anyway, when I say my writing life
didn’t begin until college, that’s because my
home life was so overwhelmingly normal and angst-free: no
family divorces, no abuse, no felons, no deaths, no drugs or
alcohol, no shop-lifting or sex parties to win peer
approval. (Have you heard what 12-year-olds are up to
today? I shudder.) My father was an Air Force pilot and
we moved a lot, living in Georgia, Texas, Washington, the
Philippines, and Oklahoma before I was out of high-school,
but I liked the peripatetic lifestyle.

I wrote my first novel for a creative writing class at
Trinity University. Professor Bob Flynn inspired me and
heroically refrained from gagging when reading the
contemporary romance I titled “Jeweled Torment.”
That manuscript is buried in a box in the garage, along
with the Regency romance I wrote shortly after joining the
Air Force. I concentrated on becoming a good intelligence
officer for many years before doing any more significant
writing. I served with an F-16 wing in Korea, helped
resolve reports of live-sightings of Vietnam prisoners of
war while working out of the embassy in Bangkok, pushed
paper at the Defense Intelligence Agency, earned my
Master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania,
taught English for three years at the Air Force Academy,
learned cool things about satellites (none of which I can
ever write about) at the National Reconnaissance Office,
attended various professional schools, did my time in the
Pentagon, commanded a squadron in England, and ended up in
Colorado. Along the way, I married my wonderful husband and
produced two beautiful children who re-defined what is
important in life. A moment of Holy Spirit-guided epiphany
in Elliot’s Bay bookstore in Seattle convinced me it
was time to embark on writing and mothering full time. I
retired from the Air Force in late 2004.

My motto? Never, never, never, give up. I’m also
fond of the saying that sits on my desk beneath a photo of a
sailboat on the sea: “You cannot discover new worlds
unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

I discover new worlds all the time in my writing and I give
thanks every day for being able to pursue my passion.

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I visited Laura Si Silverio's website, and I liked the drop down menu which allows the user to pick which of her book series to check out (and in some cases, there is an excerpt from the book).myrifraf(at)gmail(dot)com

First off, I love Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot is awesome-love his "employing his brain cells" and this is really a wonderful idea of modern and classic!! My mom had a whole box of Agatha Christie's books, so I read a whole bunch of them when I was a teen, I don't think I read them all though.joanndownie@yahoo.com